Commentator and Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord out at CNN after Nazi tweet

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Commentator Jeffrey Lord, one of President Trump’s staunchest defenders on cable news, was dumped by CNN Thursday after he tweeted a Nazi salute to a liberal media analyst.

“Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”

Lord sent the tweet to Angelo Carusone, the president of the left-leaning news watchdog Media Matters, in a back-and-forth exchange with Carusone over a link to an article decrying Media Matters as “anti-free speech bigots” and “fascists.”